Yale Humanitarian Research Lab
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Yale Humanitarian Research Lab
@hrl-yalesph.bsky.social
Lab at Yale School of Public Health researching and addressing humanitarian crises worldwide
🚨NEW REPORT🚨

RSF’s systematic arson attacks in Daraja Oula between 4-8 October mark the next phase of mass atrocities in El Fasher.

RSF completed the berm around the city while targeting a community kitchen & market
🛰️@Planet @vantortech
#KeepEyesOnSudan

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October 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
🚨NEW REPORT🚨

RSF’s systematic arson attacks in Daraja Oula between 4-8 October mark the next phase of mass atrocities in El Fasher.

RSF completed the berm around the city while targeting a community kitchen & market
🛰️@Planet @vantortech
#KeepEyesOnSudan

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October 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
🚨INVESTIGATION🚨 RSF had a suicide drone capability consistent with vehicles allegedly similar to May Port Sudan drone attack. 13 drones visible prior to Port Sudan attack in Nyala with launchers.

🛰️ @Maxar, @Planet
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September 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
EXCLUSIVE: @Reuters and @nafisaeltahir on results of HRL investigation into likely site of RSF suicide drones potentially involved in May drone attacks in Port Sudan. HRL identified drones in Nyala with launchers present before attack in May:

www.reuters.com/business/aer...
Exclusive: Long-range 'kamikaze' drones seen near RSF base could worsen conflict in Sudan
More than a dozen long-range kamikaze drones seen near an airport controlled by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces during a major air assault on army territory in May indicate the paramilitaries have new weapons that could alter the course of the war.
www.reuters.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Nathaniel Raymond, Executive Director of @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social, talks with CNN about his research, which catalogs the abduction of thousands of Ukrainian children by Russia since the start of the war.
Thousands of Ukrainian children being abducted by Russia: Yale Researcher | CNN
Nathaniel Raymond, Executive Director of the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab, talks with CNN’s Pamela Brown about his organization which catalogs the abduction of thousands of Ukrainian children by Rus...
edition.cnn.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Executive Director @nattyray11 went on @cnn.com Situation Room to talk about the abduction and re-education of Ukraine’s children.

Watch the full interview: edition.cnn.com/2025/09/01/T...
Thousands of Ukrainian children being abducted by Russia: Yale Researcher | CNN
Nathaniel Raymond, Executive Director of the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab, talks with CNN’s Pamela Brown about his organization which catalogs the abduction of thousands of Ukrainian children by Rus...
edition.cnn.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It can’t be said plainer than this —>
"Ukraine can rebuild its cities, its infrastructure, and its economy. What it cannot do is reclaim the lives lost or undo the profound scars left on its youngest generation.” President Putin must return Ukraine’s children. My latest in @newsweek.com www.newsweek.com/president-pu...
President Putin Must Return Ukraine's Children | Opinion
Ukraine can rebuild its cities, its infrastructure, and its economy. What it cannot do is reclaim the lives lost or undo the profound scars left on its youngest generation.
www.newsweek.com
August 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
2024 was the most violent year on record for aid workers.

Health workers + health facilities are being systematically targeted by states to speed civilian deaths from preventable causes.

Preventable deaths. Preventable attacks. Healthcare is #NotATarget

#WorldHumanitarianDay
August 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
🚨Report🚨

@HRL_YaleSPH confirms bombardment attacks on Naivasha Market in Abu Shouk IDP Camp in satellite imagery. 40+ people including children, a pregnant woman, + an ERR volunteer were reportedly killed by RSF bombardment between 11-17 August.
📸@Maxar
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August 18, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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There's nothing better to do with your philanthropy than this. Please consider supporting the Humanitarian Research Lab and its important work, including helping to locate kidnapped Ukrainian children. @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnood/
June 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Extensive investigation by @hrw.org team in Ukraine 🇺🇦 finds no military targets present or justification for strikes that killed Ukraine’s civilians, including the deadliest attack yet on children.

More from @belkiswille.bsky.social —>
From Poltava to Kryvyi Rih, @hrw documents 4 Russian strikes that killed 47 civilians and injured 180+.
No military targets. No justification.
Just Ukrainian civilian lives lost.
📄Read the evidence. Demand justice.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
Ukraine #JusticeMatters #HumanRights
May 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
A bipartisan resolution calling for 🇺🇦’s stolen children to be returned prior to negotiations was introduced by @ChuckGrassley and @amyklobuchar, following pressure from 40+ ✝️ leaders calling on Pres Trump to return the kids.

More > t.co/F1ETbA6kbU
https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-klobuchar-lead-bipartisan-resolution-calling-for-return-of-kidnapped-ukrainian-children-prior-to-any-final-peace-agreement
t.co
May 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
🚨REPORT🚨 Artillery Damage in Abu Shouk IDP Camp + El-Fasher is visible in satelltie imagery between 12-15 May 2025. Damage is visible at the Al-Saudi Hospital, Mawashi (livestock) market, two mosques, & other likely civilian dwellings.
🛰️@Maxar @Planet
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May 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
🚨 Aircraft at RSF-held Nyala Airport Destroyed🚨 Yale HRL corroborates reports that SAF destroyed an aircraft at RSF-held Nyala Airport on 2 May 2025. A large burn scar and debris consistent with an airplane wing is visible in satellite imagery

🛰️ @Planet @Maxar

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May 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
🚨6 UAVs at RSF-held Nyala Airport🚨

Weapons likely consistent with CH-95s or FH-95s capable of long-range surveillance + strikes. RSF received advanced weapons systems while committing atrocities in Zamzam IDP Camp.
🛰️ @Planet @Maxar
medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnoo...
April 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
‼️ HUMAN SECURITY EMERGENCY 🆘

Large-scale displacement from Zamzam IDP Camp of at least 1,100 civilians on foot is visible in satellite imagery from 17 April 2025 after RSF invasion of Zamzam IDP Camp.

🛰️@Maxar
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April 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
🆘🚨Sudan 🇸🇩| Darfur - Zamzam, the largest IDP camp (population est 500,000 - 1.2mil) is being systematically destroyed 🔥 and inhabitants displaced by RSF over 48 hrs

NEW REPORT —> t.co/RVP3M84Xaq
https://files-profile.medicine.yale.edu/documents/60374754-f739-4ccc-9979-1823bcc537f6
t.co
April 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
‼️‼️🇸🇩 Sudan: Zamzam IDP Camp is overwhelmed by RSF + aligned forces. Majority has fled. The camp is being razed 🔥to the ground.

Population count was last estimated btwn 500,000-1.2 million.
April 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
🚨REPORT🚨
@HRL_YaleSPH
corroborates damage in Abu Shouk Internally Displaced Persons Camp in El-Fasher and arson attacks on 18 nearby communities

🛰️ @Maxar @CopernicusEU

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March 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Russia has also amended federal law to expedite the conferral of 🇷🇺 citizenship on Ukraine’s children. This allows for children’s identities to be changed upon being adopted in Russia–making them harder to find + return to Ukraine.
March 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
There's been some recent news about our investigation on Russia’s systematic deportation of Ukraine’s children. Get the facts >>
March 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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A new report by @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social has determined with high confidence that Russia has engaged in the systematic, intentional, and widespread coerced adoption and fostering of children from Ukraine.
Putin-controlled aircraft deported Ukrainian children, U.S.-backed research alleges
Russian presidential aircraft and funds were used in a program that took children from occupied Ukrainian territories, stripped them of Ukrainian identity and placed them with Russian families, according to a report by Yale's School of Public Health.
www.reuters.com
December 4, 2024 at 4:53 PM
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@hrl-yalesph.bsky.social's Nathaniel Raymond is briefing the UN Security Council on the report today.

The report identified 314 children placed with Russian citizens or in institutions where they were later listed for adoption and/or guardianship.

Watch live ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
United Nations - LIVE
YouTube video by United Nations
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December 4, 2024 at 4:53 PM
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This is very important work by @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social. All of us in @yaleemd.bsky.social are extremely proud of their courage and determination, and appreciate their shedding light and bringing truth to this tragedy.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia and senior Kremlin officials “intentionally and directly” authorized a program of coerced fostering and adoption of Ukrainian children during the war in Ukraine, according to a new report that provides strong evidence for a war crimes case.
Investigation Into Forced Adoptions From Ukraine Points Finger at Putin
Yale researchers traced hundreds of children taken to Russia in the war, finding what they described as “a higher level of crime than first understood.”
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2024 at 7:01 PM
🚨 Special Report: Zamzam Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp attacked by RSF @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social confirms munition impacts, conflict-related damage to structures in Zamzam IDP camp attacked between 1-3 December. Civilians appear to be fleeing.
🛰️: Maxar
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December 3, 2024 at 8:37 PM